Animated Screen version 2.22 for Windows 95/NT (C) 1997-98 PY Software, Inc. sales@pysoft.com http://www.pysoft.com Description: ------------ Animated Screen lets you create Windows screen savers, stand-alone presentations and animated .GIF files that you can give to your friends and customers or publish at your Web site. You can also use Animated Screen to start your own screen saver business, selling custom shareware screen savers, with your company listed as the author. There are no distribution fees and, as an Animated Screen owner, you can distribute the animations that you create in unlimited quantities, royalty-free. Animated Screen lets you combine an unlimited number of words, sounds (in .WAV, .RMI and .MID formats,) and pictures (in .BMP, .GIF or .JPG formats.) When working with words, Animated Screen lets you determine the font, text color, and background color; you can also add special effects like shadows and extrusion. When working with sounds, you can use pre-recorded WAV or MIDI sound files, or you can use your PC and microphone to record your own soundtracks. When working with pictures, you can place multiple images on each screen, and determine how the images come and go, using both fixed and random placement as well as special effects such as bouncing images off the screen's borders, dropping images like raindrops, or creating fascinating star-and- meteor effects. You can distribute your Animated Screen presentations as Windows .SCR screen saver files, as stand-alone .EXE files, or as self-extracting files that will automatically install your presentations into your users' Windows System folders and set them up as standard screen savers. Animated Screen compresses your files so that they can be sent easily over the Internet. Animated screen is fastest tool for creating animated .GIF banners. Key features include: Smart frame and palette optimization One palette generation from multiple images Support for a wide range of image file formats (BMP, GIF and JPEG) Drag-and-drop image insertion and composition Visual composition View multiple frames simultaneously Global attribute change commands Complete palette control Layer image merging and export support Banner text creation Palette editing support Infinite looping control Changes in new 2.2 version: Creating animation from AVI files; Added 10 transition effects; Creating AVI file with WAV sound; Added "GIF Optimization Wizard" for creating smallest GIF files; Added Preview window in the File Open window. System Requirements: -------------------- 80386/486 based IBM PC compatible computer (or higher). 3MB of free memory; 10MB free disk space; Microsoft Windows 95/NT 4.0; A mouse; A color monitor with a 256 colors card (65536 colors card is recommended); A sound card is recommended; A recording hardware (a microphone) is recommended. Protection: ----------- Animated Screen is distributed as Shareware. This is not Freeware or Public Domain. You may use the shareware version for 30 days. If after 30 days you would like to continue using it, then You should purchase a license. After you pay, you receive Registration Name and Registration key from the author to tell Animated Screen that you have paid the shareware fee. Paying: ------- When you purchase an Animated Screen home license, you can sell or give away the screen savers that you create, but they will list PY Software as the author in the program's "settings" box. When you purchase the Animated Screen commercial license, you can enter your company into the program's "settings" box, and create shareware screen savers with shareware reminders, registration names and registration keys that allow users to register your screen savers with your company. Site license covers a single organization for an area of up to one hundred miles (160 km) in radius. For creating animated .GIF or .AVI files, it will be enough to purchase limited license for $29 US. Paying for Animated Screen is fairly simple. Postal, e-mail and fax paying: Open the Register program, that accompanies Animated Screen, by starting the file REGISTER.EXE. Enter your name, your email address, and the license you desire to purchase. Save or Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi Shareware. Email: shareware@kagi.com FAX: +1 510 652 6589 Postal address: Kagi Shareware 1442-A Walnut Street #392-PZ Berkeley, California, 94709-1405 USA Telephone Orders: Kagi takes telephone orders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Kagi phone number is: +1 (510) 658-5244 The system provides answers to common questions and if you wish to place an order it will transfer your telephone call to an answering service. Online registration via Internet: Online registration is available at secure order form: http://www.pysoft.com/registration_fr.html For further information open the REGISTER.HLP file. The fee for registered version of Animated Screen is: single license for creating animated .GIF files only $29.00; single home license $49.00; single home license with educational discount $29.00; * site home license $490.00; ** world-wide home license $990.00; *** single commercial license $99.00; single commercial license with educational discount $49.00; * site commercial license $790.00; ** world-wide commercial license $1900.00; *** * You can purchase a license with educational discount if you are a student, faculty member or staff member of an educational institution (K-12, junior college, college or university). ** Site license covers a single organization for an area of up to one hundred miles (160 km) in radius. *** World-wide license covers everyone in a single organization. Installation: ------------- Run ASCRSTP.EXE program and follow the instructions. *************************************************************************** The program does not place any of parts in the Windows system directories and does not modified Windows libraries. *************************************************************************** Starting: --------- Start ANIMSCR.EXE from Windows environment (by double click in Windows Explorer for example). Uninstallation: ------------- 1. Click the Start button 2. Click Settings 3. Click Control Panel 4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs 5. Select Animated Screen and click the Add/Remove... button 6. Click the Yes button to confirm deletion or manually delete all files in the directory created for Animated Screen and delete the directory too. Delete shortcut of Animated Screen from your Startup group (folder). Run REGEDIT.EXE program and delete key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PySoft\Animated_Screen from the registry. Distribution terms: ------------------- Animated Screen may be distributed freely in its original unmodified and unregistered form. The distribution have to include all files of its original distribution. ASCRSTP.EXE README.TXT If you like to bundle Animated Screen with other programs, goods, services, etc. you are selling in a registered form please feel free to contact us at: sales@pysoft.com to figure out the conditions. If you would like to distribute Animated Screen or other PY Software products, please contact sales@pysoft.com Disclaimer of warranty: ----------------------- This software is sold "as is" and without warranties whether expressed or implied. Because of the various software and hardware environments into which this program may be put, no warranty of fitness for a particular purpose is offered.